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I wish to thank Leah Fargotstein, Kassie Graves, Yvonne McDuffee, Kelly DeRosa, Sheree Van Vreede, and Vicki Knight at SAGE for their excellent help on the project from beginning to end. I appreciate my professors in the sociology graduate program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who taught me about data analysis. In particular, I am grateful to Hal Winsborough, my dissertation advisor, and to Jim Sweet for their constant support throughout my career. I thank my students and colleagues at Louisiana State University (LSU) for their support and contributions as I developed the ideas for this book. I am indebted to Wayne Villemez, Joachim Singelmann, and Andy Deseran at LSU for giving me the opportunity to start an academic career. My students and colleagues at Ball State have been instrumental in providing me with an environment where I could work out my ideas on regression analysis. I appreciated very much the support of Jun Xu and Rachel Kraus as I developed my book. I thank Jun Xu, Yanyi Djamba, Dan Powers, and the reviewers for reading the manuscript and for making helpful suggestions. Those reviewers are as follows:

 Naveen Bansal, Marquette University

 Cynthia M. Cready, University of North Texas

 Robert J. Eger III, Naval Postgraduate School, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy

 Craig Parks, Washington State University

 Guogen Shan, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas

 Christine Tartaro, Richard Stockton College

Finally, I am grateful to Elaine, Will, my family, and my friends for making my life a richer one.